Showing posts with label objective function. Show all posts
Showing posts with label objective function. Show all posts

Friday, June 5, 2015

Third Method of Solving IMO Optimization Contest Problem: Find the minimum value of $xy$,

Third Method of Solving IMO Optimization Contest Problem:

Find the minimum value of $xy$, given that $x^2+y^2+z^2=7$, $xy+xz+yz=4$, and $x, y$ and $z$ are real numbers.

This third method is provided by Mark, another blog contributor and he approached the problem using the well-known Lagrange multipliers method: